Gene Ochsenreiter Lifetime Achievement Award

Since 2000, the Mountain Amateur Athletic Club has recognized and honored a Western North Carolina community leader involved in athletics with the Gene Ochsenreiter Lifetime Achievement Award.

The honor, originally named the MAAC Lifetime Achievement Award, was renamed in 2008 to honor Ochsenreiter, a former Asheville mayor who was instrumental in creating and sustaining both the MAAC and the WNC Sports Awards Banquet, which has recognized the top area athletes and awarded scholarships since 1957.

The award, sponsored by Moog Music, is presented each year at the banquet.